Misc

• Added Battlefields to hexes where a unit dies. These produce 1 culture per dead unit for the owner of the hex
  
• Added Very Long custom game length - 200 points and 50 turns
  
• Killing an enemy unit now gives 1 happiness to your nearest city
  
• Base multiplayer turn timer increased 10 seconds
  
• Turn timer visible countdown changed from 30 seconds to 45 seconds
  
• Changed Long game length max turns to 40
  
• Changed Normal game length max turns to 25
  
• Can no longer redraw your hand while you have cards stored for next turn
  
• Can view the cards in your deck (unordered) by mousing over the Draw Card button
  
• Added a custom game setting for coastal player starts only
  
• Added menu option for enabling or disabling automated camera panning to Wonders built by other players
  
• Most floating text size decreased
  
• Added single-player Skirmish setting to use the multiplayer unit movement rules
  
• Yield and Citizen hover popup delayed slightly more to prevent accidental Citizen pick ups
  
• Adjusted civ assignment so that your preferred civ should never be taken by a player that did not select that civ
  
• Parthenon deck inspection view now shows cost that includes adjustments such as increased hammer cost from Wonders already built
  
• Multiplayer network data usage reduced
  
• Minor map generation performance improvements
  
• Random number generation status for market, shuffle, and harbor is saved and restored for save games
  
• Changed free citizen movement highlight glow to be more conspicuous and consistent with other glow effects
  
• Ability icons on map now always display in the same order
  
• Conquistador can now fire 3 times in a single turn instead of 2
  
• Wheat now gets the resource diversity bonus like other food resources
  
• Some adjustments and fixes to the tutorial campaign
  
• In-game bug report submissions will now retry if the initial send attempt fails
  
• Bots no longer build cities on Holy Sites
  
• Bot builds slightly fewer siege weapons
  

Balance

• Winery gold yield for hex increased from 1 to 3
  
• Cultivate now also adds 1 gold production to Farm and Winery
  
• Persia's Satrap ability now also claims an extra random unclaimed hex next to the target hex
  
• Himeji Castle now produces 4 hammers and 3 culture
  
• Himeji Castle causes the extra military unit drawn to cost 20% of its strength in gold
  
• Conscription unit gold cost reduced to 20% of unit strength
  
• Spearman now does 400% damage when defending against mounted units
  
• Cossack flank attack damage slightly reduced and splash damage limited to 2 units
  
• Great Wall now adds 1/3 of unit's total movement cost instead of a flat 1 movement. This makes it more effective against mounted units, Scouts, and Settlers
  

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occur sometime after building Parthenon
  
• Fixed an issue where floating text over a unit would continue to move to the side if the unit model was hidden
  
• Fixed issue where players could build a Barracks near enemy cities instead of just friendly cities
  
• Fixed an issue where the default Citizen on the city hex could be destroyed with abilities like Ritual and Conscription
  
• Fixed issues where players could pick up resource tokens while playing a card and could pick up a card while holding resource tokens
  
• Forage used on water tiles by England now correctly receives the gold bonus if used in England's territory
  
• Fixed issue where building lumbermill would not refresh terrain yield on resource overlay
  
• Fixed an issue where attack orders that result in no targets still reward promotion slots
  
• Fixed an issue where multiplayer games would reduce custom game map sizes with less than 5 players. This could cause map generation failures
  
• Fixed an issue where Mac clients could not join friends from their Steam friends list while the game was not loaded
  
• Fixed an issue where Rome's Infrastructure ability could target a card it already targeted this turn
  
• Fixed an issue where Battlefields would block improvements from being built on that hex
  
• Fixed an issue where Forced March was incorrectly causing units to ignore zone of control
  
• Fixed Garrison card text to correctly include fact that it also gives a defense bonus in cities
  
• Fixed an issue where you could apply Garrison to the same unit twice
  
• Fixed issue where resistance to culture steal value would show on culture overlay for a hex player used to own but no longer does
  
• Fixed localized Pyramids card description text
  

Patch Notes for Update 1.1.858

Multiplayer Ranked Games

• Ladder Season 1 starts December 21
  
• Season 0 is live now and all ranked profile data will reset when Season 1 starts
  

New Single-Player Challenge Objectives

• Added Control X Holy Sites challenge objective
  
• Added Have X Stored Gold challenge objective
  
• New objectives can appear in Daily Challenges, Weekly Campaigns, and Hegemon runs
  

Misc

• Max gold that can be stored between turns increased to 100
  
• Can no longer pillage your own cities
  
• If a Spearman is defending against a cavalry unit it always fights even if its not the top unit in its stack
  
• Added a few festive UI decorations
  
• New custom game option: Limit Card Burn Resources. This toggle defaults off but if enabled will limit the amount of resources you get from burning cards during your turn to 2 hammer + 1 science, 1 hammer, 1 gold, 1 gold....
  

Balance

• Great Wall - now adds a flat 1.0 to movement cost when entering your territory instead of a full turn's movement
  
• Pyramids - only gathers resources collected by Mine
  
• Pyramids - no longer gathers from hexes controlled by another player
  
• Workshop - now produces 3 hammers
  
• Found Capital immediately produces 5 gold
  
• Palace - gold production reduced to 1
  
• Conscription - now sets unit gold cost to 33% of its strength
  
• University - culture production reduced to 3
  
• University - happiness production reduced to 1
  
• Catapult - cost changed to 4 hammers with alternate cost of 1 stone
  
• Market building - now costs 5 hammers with alternate cost of 1 stone, 1 marble
  
• Market building - base gold production increased to 6
  
• Market building - per-citizen working city hex gold production increased to 4
  
• Road - base cost now builds a road over 4 clear hexes instead of 3
  
• Turns until resources sold on market are available to other players reduced
  
• Market sale prices only fluctuate up or down if more or less than 33% of a given resource type that was available for sale actually sold. For science the threshold is 50%.
  
• England chance to generate a hammer on resource sale increased to 33%
  
• Aztec Jaguar - card in your deck gains 1 strength every 2 turns, and cost goes up by 1 hammer every 4 turns
  
• Aztec Jaguar - base strength reduced to 4
  
• Aztec Sacrifice ability - Also draws a Charge or Mobilize card when played
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a game's achievement state would not be stored when saving your game
  
• Conscription no longer effects cards that have already been effected by Conscription
  
• Strength from Royal Guard promotion is now adjusted when a unit moves instead of just when the turn changes
  
• Fixed an issue where units killed while defending were not counting for Arc de Triomphe points or the Lionheart achievement
  
• Fixed an issue where the Parthenon deck inspection popup would should the card cost breakdown panel to the left of the cards
  

Balance

• Imperial Guard now unlocked at tech tier 5 instead of 4
  
• Cossack now unlocked at tech tier 5 instead of 4
  
• Resource sale gold capped at 8
  
• Max multiplayer turn timer increased
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where French artillery was producing 1 hammer
  

Balance

• Burning firewood doesn't disable free redraw hand ability for this turn
  
• Palace gold production increased to 2
  
• Added second Firewood card to starting deck
  
• Cossack flank attack bonus damage and splash damage reduced
  
• Imperial Guard hammer cost increased to 10
  
• Turn timer slightly increased
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where blocked attacker advances would cause Charge to trigger another attack
  

UI

• New popup that allows players to change their preferred civilization any time they queue for, join, or create a multiplayer game
  
• Civilization bonuses and unique cards show when choosing your multiplayer preferred civilization or selecting them for Hegemon
  
• Locked difficulty settings now show up in AI difficulty dropdowns
  
• Visual feedback for challenge results being processed
  
• Resetting a Hegemon campaign now allows you to adjust the difficulty when creating a new one
  
• Added a menu option to disable warnings about burning Settler and Tech cards
  
• Added a menu option to disable using your Discord username in challenge and multiplayer results
  
• Added notification for when your game version is out of date
  

Balance

• Can no longer redraw hand for free after burning a card
  
• Hegemon score penalties doubled. For example if 10% of runs were completed by Rome, the penalty on scores is now 20%
  
• Warehouse storage bonus increased to 3
  
• Craftsmanship now only gives 1 culture per building and improvement
  
• Spearman bonus defending against cavalry changed to 300%
  
• Charge will now still make a unit attack if its movement is blocked in multiplayer
  
• In multiplayer, if a unit cannot advance immediately after an attack, it will try again after all player attacks and moves are completed
  

Misc

• Starter Campaign difficulty adjustments
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Great Library could give duplicate cards
  
• Fixed an issue where the AI could research a tech without all of the prerequisites
  
• Fixed an issue with recording challenge results for the Daily Duty, Steadfast, and Monthly Marshal achievements
  
• Fixed a glitch in the leaderboards caused by quickly switching between "All Attempts" and "First Attempts"
  
• Fixed an issue where spearman bonus was not effecting Cossacks and Companion Cavalry
  
• Fixed an issue where Volley was not effecting Berserker attacks
  
• Barracks and Fort are now correctly labeled as Improvements
  
• Fixed issue in tutorial where Charge tip could highlight Charge card in your discard pile
  

Hexarchy 1.0.817 – Patch Notes

Single-Player Saves

• Single-player games automatically save after each turn (Skirmish, Hegemon, Daily Challenge, Weekly Campaign, Starter Campaign)
  
• Starting a new single-player game will delete your current save
  
• Game updates may invalidate old saves
  
• Challenge and Hegemon saves cannot be resumed after the challenge or Hegemon round has expired
  

Misc

• Snoozing the "Players are Looking for a Game" notification now disables it for 4 hours unless you manually turn it back on in settings
  
• Custom multiplayer lobby setup shows the max number of players with the current settings
  
• Rage Quit button removed
  
• Max points for challenge levels reduced from 250 to 200
  
• New terrain art for your selected hex
  
• New Divine Favor and Divine Decree sounds
  
• Game UI no longer interactable while tech tree is open
  
• Reduced AI difficulty on Easy
  
• Tutorial tweaks
  
• Localization updates
  
• Rage Quit button added back in
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where occasionally your card choices would not appear when playing a tech card
  
• Fixed an issue where the card you're playing could disappear when clicking a "We Love You" heart
  
• Fixed an issue that caused CPU usage to spike when a single-player game ended
  
• Removed special burn card dissolve effect that may have been causing a crash on some systems
  
• Fixed an issue where Divine Decree and Invest could not be played if you stored them and then unstored them in the same turn
  
• Fixed an issue where the text for the "Arrow Key Scrolling" toggle would sometimes show up as a second "Edge Scrolling" toggle
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing map generation to fail for level 3 of this week's Weekly Campaign so that it would get stuck on the loading screen
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the title menus where the Hegemon, Starter, and Weekly Campaign screens could show "Quit" and "View Map" buttons. The Quit button would cause the title menus to completely reload instead of navigating back